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Ryan Peterson

'What Are You Going To Do With A Million Dollars?' Homeless Man Thought He Won $200, Wins A Lot More Instead

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Armando Vidal thought he’d won just $200 on a scratch-off ticket until the store manager asked him, "What are you going to do with a million dollars?"

Vidal, who'd been homeless since 2008, bought a $5 Triple Red 777 ticket at Sandy’s Deli & Liquor in San Luis Obispo expecting nothing special, according to a press release from the California Lottery. When Wilson Samaan, the store manager, scanned the ticket and casually dropped the million-dollar question, Vidal’s world flipped upside down.

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